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| The burden of diseases on disability-free life expectancy in later life | | Author(s) | Carol Jagger, Ruth Matthews, Fiona Matthews |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 62A, no 4, April 2007 |
| Pages | pp 408-414 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Good Health ; Physical disabilities ; Diseases ; Self care capacity ; Mobility ; Older men ; Older women ; Longitudinal surveys ; Cambridgeshire ; Gwynedd ; Newcastle upon Tyne ; Nottingham ; Oxford. |
| Annotation | The consequences of diseases in later life have been judged predominantly through mortality, resulting in an emphasis on the fatal rather than non-fatal disability conditions. The authors used a longitudinal study with follow-up at 2, 6 and 10 years to assess the impact of different diseases on both total life expectancy (TLE) and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE). The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS) investigators interviewed 13,004 people aged 65+ from five UK areas (Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Cambridgeshire and Gwynedd) starting in 1991. People aged 75+ were over-sampled. Disability (mild, moderate and severe) was assessed through basic activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) scales at baseline and at follow-ups at 2, 6 and 10 years. TLE and DFLE were compared for those with and without each of nine conditions. At age 65, men had a TLE of 15.3 years, of which 12.1 (79%) were free of any disability, whereas women of the same age had an average TLE of 19.4 years, with 11 years (57%) disability free. Men (women) aged 65 years without stroke had 4.8 (4.6) more years of TLE and 6.5 (5.8) years DFLE. Without diabetes, men (women) lived 4.4 (5.6) years longer and had 4.1 (5.1) years disability free. More disability-free years were gained than total life years in those people who were free of stroke, cognitive impairment, arthritis, and/or visual impairments at baseline. This finding suggests that elimination of these conditions would result in a compression of disability. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070926224 A |
| Classmark | CD: BN: CJ: CA: C4: BC: BD: 3J: 8C: 98: 86A: 8NTF: 8OC |
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